<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Thansamillion Crispin, </SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">I will do a little more research and learn. The impact of mass produced long burning Tea Lites candles is very promising as we see the cost of fuels rising rapidly.</SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Cheers, Maurice.<VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR></SPAN></div>
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<div class=yiv1483976351MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Dear Maurice</SPAN></div>
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<div class=yiv1483976351MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Quite a bit of work was done by SASOL on wax-fuelled stoves. Ryan Fowler (Cape Town) did a Masters degree on the subject.</SPAN></div>
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<div class=yiv1483976351MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">On 23 April 2008 Andrew Parker wrote (here):</SPAN></div>
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<div class=yiv1483976351MsoPlainText>Last year I downloaded a Master's Thesis, "The Design of a Wax Burning Stove," by Ryan Fowler of the U of JHB <SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">[UJ]</SPAN>. You may have supplied me with the reference, but I don't remember for sure. I was thinking that there is a wealth of information to be had from mining the old patents for lard lamps. They were quite common and some were pretty sophisticated, before cheap kerosene pushed them out of the market in the mid 1800's.</div>
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<div class=yiv1483976351MsoPlainText>If petroleum wax has a consistently higher energy to weight ratio than white gas and alcohol, I wonder if it might not be a strong competitor in the light camping market? It would certainly be safer to store and carry around.</div>
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<div class=yiv1483976351MsoPlainText>Andrew P.</div>
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<div class=yiv1483976351MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Ryan’s work will be helpful and especially the lard lamp reference is valuable to you.</SPAN></div>
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<div class=yiv1483976351MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Regards</SPAN></div>
<div class=yiv1483976351MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Crispin (also working with UJ, but not at the same time – he is long gone)</SPAN></div>
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<div class=yiv1483976351MsoNormal><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang=EN-US>From:</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang=EN-US> stoves-bounces@lists.bioenergylists.org [mailto:stoves-bounces@lists.bioenergylists.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>MauricePColgan<BR><B>Sent:</B> September-27-11 8:39 AM<BR><B>To:</B> stoves@lists.bioenergylists.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Stoves] Candle powered stove</SPAN></div></DIV></DIV>
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<div class=yiv1483976351MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Ten hour candles can heat a multi-fuel stove hot enough to cook in, or on. It's still in the experimental phase and feedback would be appreciated. </SPAN></div></DIV>
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